Unite Students given planning approval for Waverley House PBSA
Unite Students has been given planning permission by Bristol City Council to develop its Waverley House purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) scheme on the corner Queen Charlotte Street and Crow Lane in the city. The development is an existing Unite Students-owned PBSA building comprising of 217 student rooms over a NCP multi-storey car park on Queen Charlotte Street, which has been vacant since spring 2023. The building was constructed in the 1970s and is approaching the end of its lifespan, with concerns about its structure. It was reclad in 2018 and 2019, after failing safety tests following the Grenfell Tower fire. Inspections also found significant corrosion and problems with concrete.
The student accommodation provider wants to demolish all existing buildings and construct a new PBSA-led mixed-use development comprising a total of approximately 172,000 sq ft GIA of floorspace. This will include commercial and community space at ground floor, 503 PBSA bedrooms across levels one to 16, internal amenity space and external amenity in the form of landscaped roof terraces …